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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,924 ratings
    • This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,087 ratings
    • Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
    • Narrated by: Quiara Alegría Hudes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio....

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    • The Power of Extravagant Tenderness
    • By: Gregory Boyle
    • Narrated by: Gregory Boyle
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 613 ratings
    • Gregory Boyle, the beloved Jesuit priest and author of the bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir, returns with a call to witness the transformative power of tenderness, rooted in his lifetime of experience counseling gang members in Los Angeles....

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    • A Nurse's Story
    • By: Christie Watson
    • Narrated by: Christie Watson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Christie Watson spent 20 years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful audiobook, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her unforgettable patients....

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    • By: Derrick Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oni Woods Ojukwu
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth....

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    • Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
    • By: Sarah A. Chrisman
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? Find out....

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    • Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
    • By: Helen Thorpe
    • Narrated by: Kate Handford
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • The Newcomers follows and reflects on the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the course of their 2015-2016 school year at Denver's South High School....

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    • Essays 2003-2020
    • By: Salman Rushdie
    • Narrated by: Raj Ghatak, Salman Rushdie
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Salman Rushdie, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time....

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    • Dispatches from a Life in the Press
    • By: Calvin Trillin
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Calvin Trillin has reported serious pieces across America for The New Yorker, covered the civil rights movement in the South for Time, and written comic verse for The Nation....

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    • Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories
    • By: Lisa-Jo Baker
    • Narrated by: Lisa-Jo Baker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended....

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    • Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
    • By: Clare Hunter
    • Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom....

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    • Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
    • By: Nikhil Krishnan
    • Narrated by: Kieran Hodgson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism....

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    • The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
    • By: Lauren Marks
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Lauren Marks was 27 when an aneurysm ruptured in her brain and left her fighting for her life. She woke up in a hospital soon after....

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    • A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
    • By: Alejandra Oliva
    • Narrated by: Angela Juarez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way...

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    • A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
    • By: Diane Ackerman
    • Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Diane Ackerman tells the breathtaking story of the stroke that deprived her husband, Paul West - a distinguished novelist and poet - of every scrap of language....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: E. J. Koh
    • Narrated by: E. J. Koh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work, leaving 15-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family’s new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother’s absence....

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